Has ForArgyll officially died? …

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Men in dark coats and glasses, shutting down the free media who dare question the Dear Leader and her Apparatchiks. Zero tolerance of those “not on message”. A poor day for democracy and free speech if it is a gag. Is this a foretaste of an independent Scotland?

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ForArgyll on PauseI hope the party faithful come knocking to generate support for indyref2. I’ll take pleasure in telling them I voted SNP previously as I thought a Scottish focused Government would be a good thing, unlike other Scottish parties who must have some influence from big brother down south. I did not vote SNP to get independence and assumed once in power they would make best use of it. But now, they got wilder eyed and the thirst for independent blood grew stronger. We had a vote. I voted no. We’re now faced with another vote. It will still be no. And guess what, at the election SNP will definitely not be getting my vote again. Their opportunity to prove themselves in Government has been squandered with this obsession to the extent it overshadows everything else and they are objectionable on principle.
An example? Some Conservatives suggested a new Royal Yacht, SNP rose up an decried it as wasteful and a stupid idea. Did not one SNP MSP or MP think for a second that Scotland has a proud shipbuilding tradition and several limping shipyards its desperate to keep afloat and has a whole executive agency who regularly need to buy or build large passenger ferries? This could have been an opportunity to build on that but dogma stood in the way.
Instead, it is happy to piss £tens of millions keeping loss making Prestwick alive with no obvious plan to turn it around beyond a ‘space port’.
Decisions like this shake my faith that SNP really has any competence to manage itself, never mind manage an independent country.

The reality is, none of the other parties will do a bad job as by and large, the Scottish population and its public servants are sensible people. Roll on the next parliamentary election in Scotland. Time for change.

With Heb Isles in for repairs, CalMac charters replacement vessel to reduce underprovision for IslayWhatever the technical issue, the fact is a large Calmac passenger ferry has run out of the control of its captain in fine, flat and calm sailing condition. Through sheer luck ‘only’ £100k of damage has been done smashing into a marina and the vessel has reportedly grazed its hull on the seabed, although some eye witnesses talk of the vessel coming to an abrupt halt suggesting it hit something more solid. But the extent of that damage isn’t know yet.

This is an extremely serious maritime safety incident whose root cause needs to be investigated thoroughly with the results being made public.

With Heb Isles in for repairs, CalMac charters replacement vessel to reduce underprovision for IslayHow is it the state owned company even makes a profit? Would this profit be any more or less than a private operator?
Would a 1.5% bonus wipe out any marginal profit made anyway.
Where is Calmac getting its £6m it promised to invest in vessels and ports in the next contract if it isn’t coming from its profits, which are generate only from payment of excess subsidy anyway?
Any business that costs more to deliver than it gets in revenue cannot by definition make a profit. Any ‘profit’ is just an allowable return funded from the payment of excess subsidy. There may be good reasons to allow this cash buffer to be created, but it is not ‘profit’. It is an operational slush fund.